Poll: Who is your favorite game developer?

[Sir Boss]

Bioware or Relic, Consistently great RPGs (shut up i liked DAII) or consistenty great RTSs. I can't decide

 

[Kapol]

Bethesda, Obsidian, Insomniac, Sucker Punch, and a few others. I really like New Vegas, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc. I also love the Ratchet and Clank, Jack and Dexter series. There are others, but I can't think of them. Personally, I think Valve is fairly overrated. Portal is the only series of theirs that I really like. They also use the same basic style for every game, though that's mainly because of the engine they use. That doesn't mean I don't like them though, and I do like Steam.

 

[David Hebda]

Troika... even though they don't exist anymore I still like them best of all.

 

[Seieko Pherdo]

Atlas, hands down.

 

[nklshaz]

Sucker Punch. Sly Cooper and Infamous FTW

 

[Alphakirby]

Atlus.
Catherine is a great game and Capcom recently fell out of my favor after announcing that Megaman Legends 3 was cancelled (I was on the friggin dev team for crying out loud) Also that fiasco with no save deleting in RE: The Mercinaries 3D helped that along.

 

[linkblade91]

No Insomniac on the list!? I am saddened; Ratchet and Clank is my favorite game series ever!

 

[Aprilgold]

Valve, because all their games are good and I don't have to hide the fact that their shit.

 

[dertyqwerty]

My votes for Blizzard.

I really like WoW, SC2 and the Diablo series (I'd love Diablo 3 more... *cough*)
They don't have a lot of games, but they seem to put a lot of time and quality into everything they do. I think that's really important for a developer.

 

[C2Ultima]

/unoriginality

I'll say Valve. L4D2 is still my favorite game, Portal and Portal 2 were fantastic, and I've never disliked one of their games.

 

[Jfswift]

I'll give Squaresoft some props here. They've consistently come up with cool games over the years (some better than others obviously ;P).

 

[Fusioncode9]

Bioware, Suckerpunch, Atlus, And Nintendo, All of these studios have made some of my favorite games.

 

[Tanis]

NIS, Square or Atlus

Gonna have to go with this as well...

Though, they tend to be better 'Publishers' for some reason...

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Atlus. I love their games. Especially if you count games that they published and brought to the States like Odin Sphere.

And Disgaea.

They gain massive points for helping NISA get off the ground.

True. I did a double take when I saw the publisher name on the case of Hour of Darkness. And I love me some NIS even if they have been hit and miss this console generation.

The only miss for me this gen was "Last Rebellion". And even that had a good concept. It was just a little too short and easy. But the idea of switching between too forms in battle was a good one. So was the idea of sequence targetting of various body parts. A near miss, but still a miss.

It's not like Atlus has always been spot on either, having published the worst RPG of all time (IMO - yes, worse than BOFQ...)

Presenting the worst RPG of all time:

Spoiler

Thousand Arms​

I was counting games that they published. I often bring up Hyperdimension Neptunia. Create concept and a great art style. But the execution was lacking. Can't wait for Disgaea 4, though.
And I never played that game. (looks it up) It sounds okay. That bad? I have my own hatred for a particular RPG.
FFX.

 

[NickCaligo42]

I have none. None of the developers of this generation have terribly impressed me.

 

[BadPublicity]

Bethesda, mainly because of the Fallout series. Ubisoft, to many awesome games to name from these guys, but there DRM is uh, questionable, yeah lets go with that. Also Paradox Interactive, Mount and Blade series is beast.

 

[Tselis]

Square Enix. That's right.

 

[Wrath 228]

Ubisoft. The Tom Clancy games, Assassin's Creed, and many other titles. They're a talented, diverse bunch, and they make damn good games.